Abstract:
Entrepreneurship education has been recognised as one of the vital
determinants that could influence students’ career decisions. Understanding
undergraduate entrepreneurship on campus and how business affect academic
career of students is a recent development in most universities in Nigeria.
Studies that investigate the effects of student entrepreneurship on campus in
universities in Nigeria are relatively scarce in the literature. The objective of
this research was to determine the demographic characteristics of
undergraduate entrepreneurs in Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti. The research
among other things is put together to determine reasons for undergraduate
involvement in businesses on campus. The study also determined the extent at
which combining academic work with business activities affects student
performances in the university. Descriptive statistics including regression
analyses and percentage of the quantitative data at the 0.05 level of
significance were used to address the research objectives using SPSS (version
23).The results indicated the demographic characteristics of undergraduate
such as age, gender, family background, nature of parent occupation and
status at work, all have significance influence on undergraduate
entrepreneurship on campus. Similarly, the R (correlation Coefficient) gives a
positive value of 0.711; this indicates that there is a very strong and positive
relationship between business activities (low income, government policy) and
students’ academic performance. Recommendations include that university
should recognise undergraduate entrepreneurship on campus and develop a
framework that accommodate student involvement in business activities on
campus vis-à-vis their academic performance
Description:
Fourteenth Biennial Conference on Entrepreneurship/ Edited by Rajeev Sharma, Sunil Shukla, Amit Kumar Dwivedi & Ganapathi Batthini
